Tom Schaefer writes to the listserv about Duck Dodge, the weekly race on Lake Union...

"What color is YOUR duck?"

The 470's new duck is only bronze.  Now I know that for some of you seasoned Duck Dodge veterans, a bronze duck warrants a big yawn, but newish WYC member Sue Spaulding and I are pretty stoked!  Consider that:

Sue and I met for the first time about two and a half hours before our race start.
I had never sailed this particular 470 before.
Sue had never sailed ANY 470 before (although she did race 420s a few years back).

About midway through the race, I noticed that the dinghy contingent looked pretty small and that we appeared to be beating some of them.  As we neared the end of our gentle spinnaker run to the finish line, the dudes in the 505 that had captured the gold duck told us that they thought we were on our way to bronze--and they were right.  The 470 will wear her new bronze duck with pride and look forward to greater glory in the future.

Tom